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The Core Error of Psychiatrists and Psychologists: Certainty about “Consensus Reality”

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Ignored by establishment psychiatry, many renowned thinkers have questioned the entire wheel of current consensus reality, concluding that it is an unnatural construction that has dehumanized us. Many of these prominent thinkers—such as Erich Fromm, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Lewis Mumford, Ivan Illich, and E.F.

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Accounting for Mental Disorder: Time for a Paradigm Shift

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DNA is the basis for heredity and for constructing the body’s proteins. The WHO’s call in 2014 for paradigm change has been answered by some important allies, one even outside of the mental health community. Laboratory studies provided the scientific basis for the development of a vaccine. Proteins keep us alive.

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Global Psychiatry’s Attempt to Excommunicate the Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health

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B etween 2014 and 2020, the UN published three reports on mental health, prepared by the special rapporteur on the right to health (Dainius Puras). Yet rather than engage with this, the authors strategically construct arguments as though they are unaware of any such issue.

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Charles Spencer’s Story of Boarding School Abuse Is Haunting

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Spencer writes: ‘I am certain that some things died for me between my eighth and 13th birthdays…Innocence, trust, joy – all were trampled on and diminished in that outdated, snobbish, vicious little world that English high society constructed and endorsed, handed over to the care of people who could be very dangerous indeed.’

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On Not Becoming David Foster Wallace

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We both thought the vulnerability was accentuated when I didn’t take my meds—the longest period of negligence was 10 days when my mother died in 2014 (nothing happened)—but we didn’t know anything about the withdrawal syndrome then. Finally, I am surrounded by people who hear me, support me, and want me to be well.

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The Iatrogenic Gaze: How We Forgot That Psychiatry Could Be Harmful

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That rate has been increasing rapidly: “From 2006 to 2014, the number of serious ADEs reported to the FDA increased 2-fold… A previously published study… found that from 1998 to 2005, there was a 2.6-fold A 2018 paper examined FDA data on adverse drug events (ADEs) and found a rate of over 100,000 serious injuries per year.

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The Psychological Humanities Manifesto: An Interview with Mark Freeman

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There’s no way to really move ahead, constructively and productively, without a moment of destruction, without a moment of negation, without a moment of critique. Reimagining the Story of Dementia (Brill | Sense). So I had no interest in, you know, knocking down this or knocking down that, and for the most part, I still don’t.